Author: to286

Reading strategies are important when you are reading something that is long and is packed with information. These strategies help me keep track of the information that is given in the text or if needed refreshing my memory. Two new reading strategies that I have tried recently are highlighting in the texts and annotating. Highlighting in the texts helped me a lot because it blocked out what’s not as important. I highlighted what I thought was important information that I want to use in my essay. It was hard not to highlight the whole page. Once you are able to cut down the information it helps you better when it comes to the writing process. Another reading strategy I used is annotating. Annotating I feel was the biggest help to me. I wrote key points in the margin and this helped me remember details and what order it happened in. I also found that I get a better understanding of the text when I annotated vs when I didn’t. Both of these skills will help me when I am writing any essay especially a research project. 

Writing a rhetorical analysis is an important step when you are writing an essay. By writing one it will help organize your thoughts and leave no room for mistakes. I can present my ideas and thoughts more clearly and will be more effective on my audience. The topic that I picked to write my essay about is why is sleep important. I picked this topic because I feel that sleep has a huge impact on a person, and I want to learn the facts and statistics about it. I have personally noticed that the days I had a good night’s sleep I am more productive then when I don’t. The questions that I am going to mostly focus on are how many hours of sleep should a person get? What happens when you do get enough sleep? Can not getting enough sleep affect my health? Lastly, I want to look at statistics to see how many hours of sleep people get based on the age group. My audience is most important my classmates and professor but also for anyone. My audience would want to know more about my topic because everyone sleeps and should know the impact sleep has on a person. I think that my audience wants to know true facts about why sleep is so important. I will write my essay in a simple MLA format and make it an easy read. I don’t want to overwhelm my readers with a bunch of information so I will just state what’s important. Getting straight to the point is what I feel makes it an essay to understand read. This way I don’t have my reader guessing while they are reading but they are gaining knowledge because they know what going on. I have a week to do research and construct a well put together essay on why sleep is important.  
 

The personality that I picked was Billie Eilish. I wanted to take a good look at her Instagram and see the message that she sends. I picked Instagram over all the other social media platforms because I feel you can get to know a person best from there Instagram page. The reason I picked Billie Eilish is that she is different from most girls. She dresses like a boy and does not show much skin. All the clothes that she wears are super baggy and you can’t see her body shape. None of her pictures allows us to see her body and I think she does that because she wants to keep her body privet. Her life is super public that something as important as her body she wants to keep it to herself. As I scroll more into her Instagram the vibe and color tones stay the same. I have noticed that Billie loves the color neon green. Billie wears clothes and shoes that color and even died the roots of her hair neon green. The vibe that her Instagram gives off is very goth and dark. Her music changes but her looks don’t. Billie has sad songs, scary songs, and happy songs and she will still bring her goth side into it. Her Instagram doesn’t really send any messages other than her making a point that she is different. You can tell that she is proud of what she does and who she is. Billie is a trendsetter, people now dress like her and copy her vibe. Another thing that I noticed on her Instagram is that she doesn’t care about what other people think and I feel that’s what makes her so special. It’s hard to be different because a lot of people fear change or anything out of the norm. People will give you hate or push you down for being brave enough to be different. You can tell from Billie’s page that she doesn’t care what people say she stays true to herself. Billie’s Instagram page expresses a lot of emotion but the pattern stays consistent.

My favorite color is red. I love the color red because it is a strong color and it suites my personality. I have a very strong personality, I am not someone that you could forget. I am naturally drawn to things of the color red. Whenever I am shopping red objects or clothing really stick out to me. Red Also is the color that looks best on my skin tone so I tend to wear red a lot. Red makes me feel powerful because it is such a strong color. I also like that most people don’t like the color red because it makes it more special. The color pink, for example, a lot of people like it so it’s not as extraordinary. I feel it’s important to stick out and be different and the color red definitely sticks out. I have always liked the color red even as a kid. My room has always been red-themed and I don’t think that will ever change. When I grow up and have my own house, the door to my house will be red. I don’t know why but that has always been a childhood dream of mine. The point is that red is different from all the other colors in my eyes it speaks to me differently.